{"id":9038,"date":"2015-10-29T16:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2015-12-04T10:15:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:15:31","slug":"youth-gop-goo-and-having-a-blast-101815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=9038","title":{"rendered":"Youth Gop, Goo, and Have a BLAST!!! (10\/18\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When’s the last time you ever heard of teenagers wanting to spend MORE time in church?\u00a0 Well, that’s what’s happened at PUMC!\u00a0 Our BLAST Youth fellowship used to meet on Sundays from 6:30 to 8:00 PM on Sunday.\u00a0 But the kids wanted MORE time and asked Youth Director Kate Dilks if they could start meeting a 1\/2\u00a0 hour earlier.\u00a0 So, we’re starting at 6:00 now!<\/p>\n

Under fresh leadership and under a renewed spirit, our youth group is growing.\u00a0 We’re also keeping busy…<\/p>\n

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Tuesdays…<\/span><\/h3>\n

Tuesday nights are a really special time at our church.\u00a0 There’s a Bible Study in the morning with Pastor Jim.\u00a0 Then (at 6:00 PM) there’s a dinner.\u00a0 After the dinner we break out for studies, and our BLAST group is one of the groups that is getting together.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday nights we’ve been looking at the parables of Jesus.\u00a0 Jesus told a lot of interesting stories… but what do they mean? What are they telling us in our day and age?\u00a0 How can WE put them to use in our lives?<\/p>\n

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Sundays…<\/span><\/h3>\n

We’re using that extra half hour on Sunday nights to get into real “down to where the rubber meets the road” topics that meet us where we’re living.\u00a0 We’re starting a new study on the Max\u00a0Lucado book<\/a><\/span>, “It’s Not About Me- Rescue from the Life We Thought Would Make us Happy<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Sometimes we get all\u00a0 hung up in the idea of what’s in it for me.\u00a0 Even though God loves us and deeply wants a relationship with us, He’s not our magical Genie who stands by to grant our every wish. He knows better!\u00a0 He wants us to walk with Him and discover life to its fullest. It’s not about me…\u00a0 it’s all about God!!!\u00a0 Once we make that shift in thinking we’ll start living a truly unburdened life.<\/p>\n

Here are a few quotes from this book:<\/p>\n\n\t\t

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It\u2019s all about him.\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\tWant to see the size of my love?” he invites. Ascend the winding path outside Jerusalem. Follow the dots of bloody dirt until you crest the hill. Before looking up, pause and hear me whisper, “This is how much I love you.”\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
\n\t\t\tNeed unchanging truth to trust? Try God’s.<\/p>\n

His truth never wavers.\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\n

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Pastor Jim introduced our Youth Director, Kate Dilks, to the congregation during the services on Sunday 10\/25…\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Fun Stuff:\u00a0 Gop and Goo…<\/span><\/h3>\n

On Sunday October 18 (after the CROP Walk), we took a break from our usual activities and jumped into som e”Gop and Goo”!<\/p>\n

We split into three teams and competed in a series of messy games. Unconventional use of things like ice cream, Jell-O, pudding, and chocolate syrup made for a gooy and messy… but fun… experience.\u00a0 We filled trash cans with Jell-O and ran a relay game where we had to fish for bouncy balls in the trash cans.We really made a mess… but it all got cleaned up.<\/p>\n

The whole thing kind of reminded us that Christ died once and for all, no matter how “gopped and gooed” we are.<\/p>\n

If Eugene Peterson saw this mess, he might quote his version of Romans 10:5-10…<\/p>\n

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Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy \u2014 every detail of life regulated by fine print!\u00a0 But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story \u2014 no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah,\u00a0 no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah.\u00a0 So what exactly was Moses saying?<\/span><\/p>\n

The word that saves is right here,<\/span>\nas near as the tongue in your mouth,<\/span>\nas close as the heart in your chest.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us.<\/span> This is the core of our preaching.\u00a0 Say the welcoming word to God \u2014 “Jesus is my Master” \u2014 embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation.<\/span>\u00a0 With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language \u00a9 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

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Here’s a look at the mess!\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

(Don’t worry trustees; we cleaned it all up… just like Jesus cleans us all up!<\/span><\/em>)…<\/p>\n

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\"Gop<\/a>We started by filling a trash can with a special “bath” of Jell-O.<\/p>\n

… Sticky, gooey Jell-O!<\/p>\n

And once the “bath was drawn” it was time to start the race…<\/p>\n

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Up and Coming…<\/span><\/h3>\n

We have a lot of activities planned, including a babysitting night so parents can go Christmas Shopping.\u00a0 And on December 13 we’re leading the worship services!<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to the website, bulletin, and social media to keep in touch.<\/p>\n

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To find out more about how we’re having a BLAST, try this button:\u00a0 BLAST<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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